Learn the English Phrases "to miss out" and "to miss the point"

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you understand the English phrase,

to miss out.

When you miss out on something,

it means you don't go to that thing or do that thing.

Here's a good example.

If I knew that tomorrow if I stayed after work,

I would get free supper, I would say, I can't go.

I'm going to miss out,

because I have other things that I have to do.

If someone said to me, hey,

we're going to go see a Toronto Raptors game next week,

Thursday night, this is fictional by the way,

the Raptors aren't actually playing anymore,

but I might say, oh, I'm going to have to miss out

because I have other things that I need to do.

So when you miss out,

it simply means that you can't do something

because you have to do something else,

and then you miss out.

You don't get to do it.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, to miss the point.

When you miss the point,

it means you don't understand something.

Sorry, there was a loud truck there.

You don't understand something or you misunderstand it.

When you miss the point.

If I said to my students,

let me think of a good example here.

If I said to my students, you should study chapter one,

just in case, they might miss the point,

and think that they're studying chapter one

just because it's fun,

when the point was there might be a quiz or test on it.

Don't think I'm explaining this one really good.

But when you miss the point,

it means you don't understand something

or you understand it wrong.

If you watch this lesson,

thinking that you are just going to learn two phrases,

you've kind of missed the point.

'Cause the point of this lesson is to learn two phrases

and to practice your listening skills

and to watch me walk around and show you the town

and to get to know me a bit better.

So hopefully you don't miss the point.

So to review, to miss out means you don't do something

because you can't go or you have other obligations.

And to miss the point is to simply misunderstand something

or to understand it wrong.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Aline.

"Hi Bob!

Thanks a lot for another really nice video!

And yeah, it's amazing to see and hear nature around you

during the lessons."

And my response, "Today's lesson will be in town,

so no nature to speak of!"

But certainly, loud pickup trucks.

I think that might have been in your field of view.

I'm not 100% sure, there was a loud pickup truck there.

Hey, today, by the way, thank you for the comment, Aline.

So today, I'm in front of an old building.

This is actually an old feed mill.

In fact, I think it says that somewhere way up there.

I'm not sure if you can see it.

It says Niagara Grain and Feed.

This was a place that made feed for chickens

and cows and pigs.

But it has been abandoned for a long time.

In fact, you can tell it's abandoned

by looking at the flower beds in front of it.

You can see they're a little bit overgrown.

There's not very many nature sounds here.

There's a lot of truck sounds.

You can see it's overgrown.

You can't even use the stairs.

There are signs here like no smoking and no dumping.

So they don't want people to dump their garbage here.

That's why there's a no dumping sign.

But anyways, we used to get feed from here

when my parents were dairy farmers.

This was one of the places.

You can see a big green grain bin, as well.

This is one of the places where we got our feed,

and it's right in town, by the way.

It's smack dab in the middle of town,

because it's located, on the other side of this,

there's actually a creek.

And I think 100 years ago or more,

they used that creek to generate power.

It's spring, and I think the bugs are starting to come out.

Anyways, an old feed mill.

No smoking, don't dump your garbage here.

That would be rude.

Thanks for watching this short English lesson.

I hope I made some sense,

and I'll see you in a couple days with another one.

Bye.